Landscape With Regards to Site

We try as architects in general to build into the context of the site. However, this decision on the way we will build on the site is a difficult task. What makes a building site specific? We looked at buildings like Falling Water and the Farnsworth house, both are considered masterpieces, but deal with their sites in very different ways. What makes these two houses successful? Is it the designer or the care with which the building and site coexist?

Weathering

Seems like a fairly basic concept, buildings age and deteriorate overtime, so what and how can we as future architects do about this? Should we consider the buildings we design to last for the next century or more, or do we consider that as we build something the end is already in sight?

Proportions ands Systems

We have talked about how the world is seen from different perspectives and that many believe that their is a proportional system that dominates the natural forms around us. Do you agree with this? Is this just an attempt to explain what we really don't understand, and are people deciding that proportions go beyond symmetry and try to blur the lines between proportion and cause and effect?

spaces and reasons

We create spaces to evoke feelings, but do we over complicate the process of the emotional journey for the user? Do architects really understand the emotional dynamics of the population at large? Does anyone beside ourselves really care about the built environment if it satisfies the id.

Craft, does it still require the hand in the 21st century? Can a computer mouse and a great mind be considered the same, is a cad drawing the same as a craftsman with a chisel in his hand? Simple question to ask, but difficult to explain.

Greening Society

This craze of considering the cycles that our products go through have seemed to have gone mainstream in just the last couple of years. Considering the impact that products have on us is a responsible act, and trying to create items that will integrate into the worlds natural cycling process will create new opportunities for new products. However when this much hype is built up around a product or idea and we see everyone from celebrities to politicians making these choices we sometimes find ourselves over-saturated and disinterested in the core idea behind it ,and move on to some other interest and never take advantage of the full potential that could arise from that idea. What will happen, will this new ideology stick or will it go out of vogue?